Maybe the bottom of a beer glass isn’t the best place to advertise a jimmy cap. Do you really want to drain the last of your beer and suddenly be reminded of Stiffler from American Pie? Yeah, we didn’t think so.
“A condom in my beer” [HolyJuan]
(Photos: HolyJuan)
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Ha! Ha! If you’re on a date, it the perfect moment to tell poor guy : ”Nope, you’re not getting laid tonight!”
@AgentTuttle: There is so much advertisement, that most people don’t notice it any more. When you mentioned dividers, I had to concentrate to finally realize they DO come with advertisements.
@AgentTuttle: Now you see ads on car hubcaps, the handles of nozzles at gas station, school report cards, and about any available surface. People will pay to place ads everywhere.
I had a great dream last night, and made about $35 in product placement revenue.
@Double J: I shouldn’t laugh at that but I couldn’t help myself.
Sorry, but this is a great idea. In my mind: it’s tastefully done, well targeted, and pretty unobtrusive. I don’t stare at the bottom of my drinking glass very often. I’m normally looking at the people I’m talking with. At the same time, I would see it occasionally, so it would still be effective.
Of course, I still don’t get what was so awful about the evolve condom commercial with the pigs in the bar. I mean, really, are we still pretending that if people don’t know about condoms they won’t know about sex?
But was it a true 16 ounce pint??
Bad marketing. Remember, the people most likely that need to be reminded of wearing a condom, drink beer out of bright red plastic cups, not glass ones.
I think it’s a great idea. In Europe lots of bars had condom ads and for example ads about chlamydia and shit in the bathrooms. It may seem off putting but it reminds people of responsibility at a crucial moment.
BTW Consumerist, please moderate your comments. Uriel is obviously a troll.
@PersonOfInterest: I used to volunteer with a non-profit that put up posters with the same messages in the bathroom stalls in bars and restaurants (and schools, police stations, whoever wanted ‘em).
Your suggestion is an excellent idea.
I prefer a Magnum with my beer, thank you very much.
Hey, that’s a great idea! Now make it funny.
@Uriel: No. People do not actually drink beer. Don’t worry.
Thats awesome. Im already dead set on *never* reproducing, but it doesn’t mean I dont appreciate random oddities such as this every now and then.
This is a great idea. What causes more one night stands then beer?
Beer always seemed like a waste of time to me. It doesn’t get you that drunk unless you have more than 6 and even then you spend most of the night pissing it out. As they say, you don’t buy beer you just rent it.
Personally, I’ll stick with my scotch. You can sip at it and after you hit that 2nd double you’re already smiley…and by the 3rd you’re nice and loose…
@Nev-in-NYC: Yeah, but you don’t usually shotgun, funnel, or play games with Scotch so it’s more of drink for Sir Buzz Killington.
As a middle-aged happily married female beer drinker, I think this is tasteless and sexist. I don’t need to be seeing condom ads at the bottom of my brew and since beer drinkers are mostly male, why aren’t there similar ads in the bottom of Chardonnay glasses?
Just stirrin’ the pot…
@masser: yeah, um, not sexist. at all. maybe discriminating against lesbians, but i bet they won’t mind more folks having safer sex. i know its a business, but i’m for more safer sex messages in more places, almost every time.
as for tasteless, well. there are no lewd images, the only thing that could be tasteless is that it references sex. but the copy is directly related to safer sex practices, which i refuse to acknowledge as “tasteful or not” because that’s feeding into the sexually repressed majority who are in their way responsible for soaring teenage pregnancy, accidental pregnancy and raging STD epidemics.
so yeah, great idea.
As an almost middle-aged happily married female beer drinker, I think this is a great idea!!
I think that is a phenominal idea. I can’t tell you how many times drinking has led to (AHEM!!) trouble…. luckily I never needed advertising; the thought of dealing with a screaming child every day was more than enough to make me use condoms.
Hmmm. I think beer would hurt coming out through my nose. Which is the logical conclusion to this type of advertising.
@testsicles: Maybe you don’t…maybe that’s why my memories of college are so blurred and sporadic…